Technical Water Boards
The Technical Water Boards are community-based associations in charge of monitoring the water supply and sanitation networks in neighborhoods, including the identification and reduction of illegal connections and leaks. On the boards, the inhabitants of communities or parishes (municipal sub-districts) elect representatives in the Assembly of Citizens who fulfill the role of spokespersons on said boards. Once there, the representatives participate in the first diagnosis of needs and the proposal of measures in collaboration with HIDROVEN, the company providing the service of drinking water and sanitation. These spokespersons then accompany the implementation of these measures and are responsible for receiving information on the execution of the projects. From the year 1999 they expanded nationally with the promulgation of the new Bolivarian Constitution of Venezuela and with the approval, among others, of the Organic Law for the Provision of Drinking Water and Sanitation Services, which provides for the incorporation of participatory instances to guarantee access and quality in the provision of drinking water and sanitation services. The model was based on the experience of the Technical Water Boards of Caracas of 1993-1996. Subsequent to its creation, in connection with its monitoring and monitoring functions, the Community Water Councils (Span. CCA), which group different Boards belonging to the same districts or operate on a shared infrastructure basis. Likewise, and from 2006, these Boards work in close collaboration with the Community Councils.
Institutional design
Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?
Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?
Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?
Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?
Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?
Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?
- Formalization
- embedded in the constitution/legislation
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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